by Audrey Benedict | Apr 8, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #12: Zebra Society Burchell’s zebra, unlike the more familiar mountain zebra, has a stripe pattern that features a distinctive brown “shadow” stripe that can be seen between the black stripes. This pattern is especially prominent on the hind quarters. Each...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 7, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #11: An Elephant’s Life In Namibia’s Etosha National Park, waterholes and elephants are a magical combination when you want to observe elephant behavior. Elephants of different ages are often present and this makes it especially fun to just sit and...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 6, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #10: African Fur Seal Family Life (Namibia) Looking at these napping African fur seals, I’m reminded that they evolved from the same land ancestors as dogs and bears. Although these fur seals spend much of the year at sea, they never fully abandon their...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 5, 2020 | ePostCards
#9: Life in an African Fur Seal Colony I admit to having an inordinate fondness for seals. There is nothing in the world like the total sensory experience of settling in with binoculars and camera at the edge of an enormous seal colony. I wish that I could magically...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 4, 2020 | ePostCards
E-Postcard #8: Life in the Sand (Namibia) Rows 1, 2 and 3: Travel with me to the dune country of Namibia. The dunes of the Namib Sand Sea cover most of the southwestern portion of Namibia, an area roughly 93 miles (150 km) wide and 248 miles (400 km) long. The...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 3, 2020 | ePostCards
E-Postcard #7: Camouflage Perfected! The current standing order for “sheltering in place” takes on a very different meaning in the natural world. Survival for some animals in the wild depends on camouflage (or cryptic) coloration or patterning, an adaptation that...
